Cast
Rip Torn
Acting
Cast
Rip Torn
Known for
Acting
Born
1931-02-06
From
Temple, Texas, USA
Died
2019-07-09
Also known as Elmore Rual Torn Jr., Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr., Elmor Torn
Biography
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well.
★7.2
MOVIE1997
Men in Black
as Zed
★7.5
MOVIE1997
Hercules
as Zeus (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE2002
Men in Black II
as Zed
★6.0
MOVIE2007
Bee Movie
as Lou Lo Duca (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2012
Men in Black 3
as Large-Headed Alien at Funeral (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE2004
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
as Patches O'Houlihan
★6.7
MOVIE2006
Marie Antoinette
as Louis XV
★6.1
MOVIE1982
Airplane II: The Sequel
as Bud Kruger / President Reagan
★6.2
MOVIE1998
Senseless
as Randall Tyson
★7.0
MOVIE1989
Silence Like Glass
as Dr. Markowitz
★6.3
MOVIE1967
Lionpower from MGM
as Self - Dano Villanova (archive footage) (uncredited)
★4.9
MOVIE1993
RoboCop 3
as The CEO
★6.4
MOVIE1996
Down Periscope
as Admiral Winslow
★5.3
MOVIE2006
Zoom
as Larraby
★7.5
MOVIE1999
The Insider
as John Scanlon
★6.2
MOVIE2005
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Commandant Sherman
★6.3
MOVIE1982
The Beastmaster
as Maax
★6.5
MOVIE1976
The Man Who Fell to Earth
as Nathan Bryce
★4.7
MOVIE2001
Freddy Got Fingered
as Jim Brody
★6.9
MOVIE1991
Defending Your Life
as Bob Diamond
★7.1
MOVIE1961
King of Kings
as Judas
★6.1
MOVIE1985
Summer Rental
as Scully
★6.8
MOVIE1978
Coma
as Dr. George
★5.0
MOVIE2009
Happy Tears
as Joe
★5.1
MOVIE2004
Welcome to Mooseport
as Bert Langdon
★6.3
MOVIE1987
Extreme Prejudice
as Sheriff Hank Pearson
★6.4
MOVIE1995
How to Make an American Quilt
as Arthur
★7.0
MOVIE1965
The Cincinnati Kid
as William Jefferson Slade
★6.8
MOVIE2000
Wonder Boys
as Q
★4.5
MOVIE1973
Cotter
as Roy
★7.0
MOVIE1978
Betrayal
as Dr. Hartogs
★4.7
MOVIE1995
For Better or Worse
as Capt. Cole
★5.8
MOVIE1995
Canadian Bacon
as General Dick Panzer
★7.6
MOVIE1957
A Face in the Crowd
as Barry Mills (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1997
The Mouse
as Trucker 'God'
★6.6
MOVIE1983
Cross Creek
as Marsh Turner
★5.0
MOVIE1991
Death Falls
as Dub Farley
★7.1
MOVIE1956
Baby Doll
as The Dentist (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1984
City Heat
as Primo Pitt
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Beyond the Law
as Deputy Prescott
★5.1
MOVIE1966
One Spy Too Many
as Alexander
★6.5
MOVIE1990
By Dawn's Early Light
as Colonel Fargo
★6.7
MOVIE1959
Pork Chop Hill
as Lt. Walter Russell
★5.4
MOVIE1987
Nadine
as Buford Pope
★6.3
MOVIE1990
Kojak: None So Blind
as Gideon Hogarth
MOVIE1987
J. Edgar Hoover
as Lyndon Baines Johnson
★6.9
MOVIE1968
Sol Madrid
as Dano Villanova
★6.2
MOVIE1989
Hit List
as Vic Luca
★4.7
MOVIE1979
A Shining Season
as Jack Baker
★5.8
MOVIE1969
Lions Love
as The Beard Director (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1962
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Tom Finley Jr.
★6.6
MOVIE1974
Crazy Joe
as Richie
★3.7
MOVIE1980
First Family
as General G. E. Dumpston
★5.7
MOVIE1988
April Morning
as Solomon Chandler
★3.9
MOVIE2011
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
as King Looney
★5.3
MOVIE2008
Turn the River
as Quinette
★4.6
MOVIE1982
A Stranger Is Watching
as Artie Taggart
★4.8
MOVIE1970
Tropic of Cancer
as Henry Miller
★5.5
MOVIE1980
One Trick Pony
as Walter Fox
★5.5
MOVIE1997
Trial and Error
as Benny Gibbs
★5.6
MOVIE1991
Dolly Dearest
as Karl Resnick
★7.3
MOVIE2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1979
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
as Senator Kittner
★5.7
MOVIE1984
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Big Daddy
★5.3
MOVIE2011
3 Weeks to Daytona
as Sal
★3.8
MOVIE1992
T Bone N Weasel
as Happy Sam
★4.5
MOVIE2005
Forty Shades of Blue
as Alan James
★5.0
MOVIE2007
The Making of Marie Antoinette
as Self
MOVIE1987
Destination: America
as Corbet St. James IV
★5.5
MOVIE1984
Songwriter
as Dino McLeish
★5.0
MOVIE1977
Nasty Habits
as Father Maximilian
★6.4
MOVIE2004
Eulogy
as Edmund Collins
★5.1
MOVIE2009
American Cowslip
as Trevor O'Hart
★7.3
MOVIE1985
The Execution
as Wilheim Gehbert
★7.0
MOVIE1995
James Dean: A Portrait
as Self (Narrator)
★5.2
MOVIE2008
August
as David Sterling
★5.2
MOVIE1994
Heart of a Child
as Dr. Leonard Bailey
★5.6
MOVIE1999
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
as Royce
★6.5
MOVIE1983
Misunderstood
as Will
★5.5
MOVIE1989
Sweet Bird of Youth
as Boss Finley
★5.6
MOVIE1963
Critic's Choice
as Dion Kapakos
★6.1
MOVIE1973
Payday
as Maury Dann
★6.5
MOVIE1967
Beach Red
as Gunnery Sgt. Ben Honeywell
★5.6
MOVIE1972
Slaughter
as Dominic Hoffo
★6.2
MOVIE1984
Flashpoint
as Sheriff Wells
★6.4
MOVIE1993
Where the Rivers Flow North
as Noel Lord
★5.1
MOVIE2005
The Sisters
as Dr. Chebrin
★5.9
MOVIE1999
Balloon Farm
as Harvey Potter
★5.9
MOVIE1980
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
as Charles Burt
★4.1
MOVIE1989
Cold Feet
as Sheriff
★6.7
MOVIE1990
Pair of Aces
as Capt. Jack Parsons
★6.1
MOVIE1991
My Son Johnny
as Brian Stansbury
★6.1
MOVIE1966
You're a Big Boy Now
as I.H. Chanticleer
★6.2
MOVIE1969
Coming Apart
as Joe
★7.5
MOVIE1975
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
as Glen Tuttle
★5.9
MOVIE2004
Love Object
as Novak
★5.5
MOVIE2008
The Golden Boys
as Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
★7.2
MOVIE1957
Time Limit
as Lt. George Miller
MOVIE1987
The King of Love
as Jack Kraft
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Maniac Magee
as George McNab
★5.5
MOVIE1986
Manhunt for Claude Dallas
as Tim Nettleton
★6.3
MOVIE1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
as George Oldenburg
★5.1
MOVIE1977
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
as Dwight Webb
★5.6
MOVIE2003
Rolling Kansas
as Oldman
★6.4
MOVIE1981
Heartland
as Clyde Stewart
★5.5
MOVIE1980
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
as Carlo Ponti
★4.6
MOVIE1982
Jinxed!
as Harold Benson
★5.6
MOVIE1968
Beyond the Law
as Popcorn
★5.6
MOVIE1962
Hero's Island
as Nicholas Gates
★5.2
MOVIE1992
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
as Admiral Paul Yost
★6.0
MOVIE1999
Passing Glory
as Father Robert Grant
MOVIE2012
Bridge of Names
as Tom
★4.0
MOVIE1991
Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind
as Captain Jack Parsons
★7.7
MOVIE1992
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
as Bill Morgan
★4.4
MOVIE1985
Beer
as Buzz Beckerman
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Letter to My Killer
★3.9
MOVIE2007
Three Days to Vegas
as Joe Wallace
★4.2
MOVIE1971
Maidstone
as Raoul Rey O'Houlihan
★5.0
MOVIE1961
24 Hours in a Woman's Life
as Paul
★9.0
MOVIE1978
Steel Cowboy
as K.W. Hicks
MOVIE2009
The Afterlight
as Carl
★5.0
MOVIE1990
Beautiful Dreamers
as Walt Whitman
★7.0
MOVIE1984
Scarab
as Khepera
★4.3
MOVIE1987
Laguna Heat
as Joe Datilla
★10.0
MOVIE1971
Montserrat
as Izquierdo
★8.0
MOVIE1984
When She Says No
as Stuart Blankfort
MOVIETBA
Heartland
★7.5
MOVIE1996
The Hindenburg
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE2012
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2000
A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle
as Detective Manny Garett
MOVIE1958
Johnny Belinda
as Locky McCormick
MOVIE2007
The Making Of 'The Larry Sanders Show'
as Arthur
★5.0
MOVIE1995
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
as Adm. Snyder
MOVIE2008
Lucky Days
as Bobo
★7.9
MOVIE1992
Fires of Kuwait
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1958
Bomber's Moon
as Lieutenant Harrison
★5.0
MOVIE1976
Birch Interval
as Thomas
MOVIE2006
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1971
1 P.M.
as Self